Every day is intense and alive, whether it's travel, work, even down time, which there is so little of.

I tried something when my career was really struggling: reaching out to people, to filmmakers I wanted to work with. I genuinely wrote a letter to Clint Eastwood saying, "Hey man, I'm a fan and I would be an extra in your movie."

I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.

I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a place of being extremely challenging and dark within their way

When I was on that boat, I realized the only way I would feel creatively challenged was if I totally changed everything about my environment and put myself in a storm, in a sense.

There's such good people out there where there filmmaking world is alive.

I had friends of mine tell me they had a baby, and I didn't even know they were pregnant.